Word: comfortable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...self-help of the title refers only very tangentially to the mass-market platitudes of the subgenere whose parameters are delimited by the disparate likes of Normal Vincent Peale and Alex (joy of sex) Comfort The idea of the self-help manual provides Moore with her most potent and original stylistic device: six of the nine stories in the book are cast in that least-employed from of narrative, yhe second person, The irony, of course, is that this form of address comes not by way of advice and is not at all directed towards the reader Far from being...
...long run, the war of attrition no longer favors Iran, as it seemed to do in the beginning. That is cold comfort for the citizens of Basra, who remain on the firing line and have learned to be skeptical of good news. For a few hours last week, they were cheered when Iran suspended the shelling following an appeal by U.N. Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar to stop attacks on civilian targets. A day later the heavy guns began to rumble again...
Foolish fellows! If they had just waited a few years, Peter Fonda, Jack Nicholson and Dennis Hopper could have been really Easy Riders. Instead of discovering America from the jolting seats of their motorcycles, they could have cruised along in the stolid comfort of an RV. With, maybe, the little woman fixing toasted cheese sandwiches in the microwave...
...almost too close for comfort as the Harvard men's Volleyball team downed Spring field, 3-2, last night...
Castleton is indeed unsettled by the shrieking, weeping and effusively loving behavior of this weird child. "Shut up, darling," he pleads during one attempt to comfort the little lad, who is, Castleton decides, "Pure Gold and all that, but inconceivably maddening." Worse, the new husband begins to take the true measure of his wife, who not only treats her servants as if feudalism still reigned and slavery had never been abolished but who hectors her semi-invalid son unmercifully: "Drink your porto and try and get a little color in your face for a change." She will make...